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23 Const. F. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/consfo23 and id is 1 raw text is: An Argument Against Accreditation of Trinity Western University's Proposed Law School Dianne Pothier* TO: J. Ren6 Gallant, President, Nova Scotia Bar- risters' Society FROM: Dianne Pothier RE: Trinity Western University's proposed Law School DATE: Consolidation of written submissions to the NSBS Executive Committee made Janu- ary 18, 2014, oral submissions made February 13, 2014, and written submissions made March 5, 2014 in response to TWU President's Kuhn's presentation on March 4, 2014 I am writing in response to your invitation for comment on whether the proposed Law School at Trinity Western University should be recog- nized as conferring a common law Canadian law degree for the purposes of admission to the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society. TWU's Community Covenant Trinity Western University is a private, faith- based university affiliated with the Evangeli- cal Free Church of Canada. Faculty and staff are required to sign an annual faith statement. Faculty, staff and students are required to sign a Community Covenant that commits them, inter alia, to treat all persons with respect and dignity and to abstain from sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman (Community Covenant, s 3). Students need not be adherents of the Evan- gelical Free Church faith, or any other Christian faith, but are nonetheless required to abide by the religiously-based code of conduct. The Commu- nity Covenant not only commits signatories in respect of their own personal conduct, but also incorporates accountability for the conduct of others within the TWU community: Ensuring that the integrity of the TWU community is upheld may at times involve taking steps to hold one another accountable to the mutual commitments outlined in this covenant. As a covenant community, all members share this responsibility. (Community Covenant, s 5). Signatories of the Community Covenant fur- ther understand that ... I have also become an ambassador of this community and the ideals it represents (Community Covenant, penultimate paragraph). Although analogies between TWU and other faith-based educational institutions in Canada have been drawn, none of those other institu- tions has or had a Community Covenant like TWU's. It is only the Community Covenant that has given rise to the question of whether a TWU Law School should be accredited. Faith-based institutions as such are not at issue. Constitutional Forum constitutionnel

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